“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
~ Crowfoot, 1890

“Life is everything. Life is God.
Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. . .
To love life is to love God.”
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.
If you’re alive, it isn’t.
~ Richard Bach

Throughout human history philosophers have speculated on perennially puzzling questions of life’s meaning, if any.
Especially following my 1992 retirement from legal practice,
I sometimes ‘channelled’ different theories about the meaning of life.
I share some with you now, not as spiritual truths but as mental speculations, in case you may – as I did – sometimes wonder why we’re here.
In reading them please remember that with a silent mind there are no questions and no answers – just choiceless awareness.

WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a word – an idea – with many meanings which are mental, not fundamental.
As beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
the meaning of “life” is what we think it to be.
But beyond our space/time/causality “reality” Life is not mental,
but Transcendental:
Life is Eternal Mystery. WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is awakened Awareness.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is infinite experience
Of Infinite Potentiality
From infinite perspectives. WHAT IS LIFE?
What is death?
In space/time polarity/causality reality,
life implies death;
life is the opposite of death.
So to know the meaning of life,
we must know the meaning of death.
When we Know the meaning of both life and death,
we shall know no death –
only awakened Awareness.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is aliveness.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is an “in a body” experience.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a continuous identity crisis:
An endless opportunity to transcend
entity identity.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is an idea game
in which we’re challenged
to make ideal
our ideas of what’s “real”. WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is endless exploration of NOW.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is an experience/experiment in space/time.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a semantic space/time sojourn.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a round trip metaphoric journey,
on which we are destined to return to point of origin.
On return, we learn – we never left.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a journey: an ego trip.
Life is a journey: a mind trip.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a workshop for ego addicts; an ego trip.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a healing/wholing gnosis process.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a metaphoric metamorphosis process.
Gleaning meaning in matter,
we learn all that matters —
we learn all that matters is
LOVE!WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a mind field –
a field of dreams,
where all we ever see or seem
is but a dream within a dream.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a cosmic game of hide and seek.
Self hides in plain insight
and, knowingly or unknowingly,
we seek Self.
We seek and seek until we find
beyond the mind,
that we are what we seek –
that what we seek is the seeker.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a learning laboratory
for discovering immortality –
experimentally and experientially.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is suffering;
Life is mystery.
Life’s miseries are mental,
while it’s mystery is Transcendental.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a cosmic masquerade;
an endless comedy/tragedy/mystery drama.
The masquerade play continues with countless acts and scenes.
Each actor must participate in innumerable roles,
until each is ultimately unmasked,
with true identity revealed as
Common “I-ness”.WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is a mystery school
in which knowingly or unknowingly
we are all students –
each learning about,
and seeking to solve,
the same Mystery –
the mystery of Divinity.
Though we may never solve it,
we shall ever evolve it –
NOW!